Roll Null

Together with Swap Cards and Hero Cards, Roll Nulls were one of the only ways to save a rolled character.

Roll Nulls allow a handler to negate a single roll, saving a rolled character from death at no cost. Roll Nulls used to be given out for writing awards (typically the Best Death Award) and as a reward for services to the site. Roll Nulls could persist between versions, though this was only established in V3.

After V4, Roll Nulls were phased out of use as a frequently problematic mechanic; it was quickly discovered that having a no-cost option to save a character became massively more powerful as the game went on, and the general strength of Nulls gave far too much power to the BDA competition. There are, however, also rules in play that prevent any hypothetical future issued Null from being used after the final twenty-five in a version are reached.